[Mageia-dev] [Bug 1016] No help in installer

[Anne nicolas]

2011/4/28 Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com>:
> On 28 April 2011 10:08, Remco Rijnders <remco at webconquest.com> wrote:
>>> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1016
>>>
>>> D Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> changed:
>>>
>>>          What    |Removed                     |Added
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>        AssignedTo|bugsquad at mageia.org         |dmorganec at gmail.com
>>>                CC|                            |dmorganec at gmail.com
>>>
>>> --- Comment #1 from D Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> 2011-04-28 12:02:52
>>> CEST ---
>>> i started to work on it.
>>
>> Given our target audience and seeing how this is going to be our first full
>> release, perhaps this should be release blocking? WDYT?
>
> About the license issue, isn't that a non issue:
> $ rpm -qp --qf '%{license}\n'
> mandriva-doc-installer-help-2010.1-1.0mdv2010.1.noarch.rpm
> Open Publication License
>
> There's no additional restrictions neither in the package nor in its
> mandriva-doc SRPM
>

In documentation

"Copyright © 2009 Mandriva SA

This material may only be distributed subject to the terms and
conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0 or later
(the latest version is presently available at opencontent.org).

Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is
prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder.

Distribution of the work or derivatives of the work in any standard
(paper) book form is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained
from the copyright holder."


When we had a look on it we discovered that it could be a full
copyleft license provided there is no restriction. Which is not the
case for Mandriva
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Publication_License. This has been
checked also with Neodoc who worked on it for years



-- 
Anne
http://www.mageia.org